Wednesday, November 6, 2013

The Awakener Blog Tour

Today on my blog I have The Awakener tour. On my stop there is a spotlight, excerpt, review, and giveaway.

Born
in Dekalb, Illinois,
Amanda Strong has called Utah, Arizona, Hawaii, Virginia and now New
Mexico home. Amanda has been spinning tales since she
was a child. Her family still remembers finding young Amanda with her bright
pink glasses, hiding in random corners of the house while scribbling away in
one of her many spiral-bound notebooks. You could say that some things never
change since Amanda is still writing today. Amanda began her writing career
when she uploaded The Awakener, her first full-length novel, on Wattpad where
it received over 430,000 reads in four weeks. She was blown away and humbled by
the reader support and feedback she received. Because of The Awakener’s success
as a non-published book, she was asked to talk on 1400 KSTAR about her story.

In
September 2013 Amanda Strong signed with Clean Teen Publishing for publication
of The Awakener, which is scheduled to release in late October of this year.
The Awakener is the first book in an all-new young adult paranormal romance
series called: The Watchers of Men.

When
Amanda isn’t writing, you can find her chasing her three rambunctious children
around the house and spending time with her wonderful and supportive husband.
On some occasions you can still find Amanda with her not-so-pink glasses,
hiding in a corner reading her favorite young adult fantasy novels or working
out only to blow her diet by eating ice cream.

Seeing Micah for the first time in years, fifteen year old Eden wants nothing more
than to run and hide, but instead in a moment of sheer embarrassment, she
throws her arms around his neck; unaware she just changed her childhood friend
forever.

With eyes’ opened to the realm of angels and demons, Micah discovers he has
become the Seer, called to save the world from an impending fire. Shy and awkward, Eden stumbles through high school clueless
her guardian angel shadows her every move, keeping her safe while she
unknowingly “awakens” others to their spiritual gifts. Micah will need those Eden
touched to complete his mission which began long ago in the ancient City of Enoch and its secret
underground temple.

With angels and demons fighting around them, both Eden and Micah must find
their own personal courage and faith in order to know what to do for the battle
that awaits them, one they must triumph or risk losing everyone they love.

Excerpt:

Eden
assumed she’d have good dreams, she had been asked on her first date today,
after-all, but she was wrong. A dam of
nightmares had broken leaving her tossing and turning. She dreamt of someone in her room, hiding in
the dark corner, waiting…watching.

It was so vivid and real, that when the furnace
clicked on, she bolted upright in bed, panting and covered in sweat. She took a deep breath and scanned her
surroundings. Everything seemed normal,
still the lingering dream made her uneasy.
She reached for her glasses on the nightstand, but knocked them to the
floor instead.

“Crap,” she muttered, not wanting to get out of her
warm bed to retrieve them. Why is it so cold in here, she wondered. I
can hear the heater blowing.

She sat back and pulled her blankets higher, trying
to settle her nerves. She heard a few
creaks and the scratching of branches hitting her window.

Those are
familiar sounds, she told herself, nothing to be jumpy about.

Something felt off.

She figured it was just being in that half-asleep
half-awake state where senses are in overdrive.
She strained to see better, still not wanting to uncover herself to retrieve
her glasses.

Why’s it
reek in here? I’m going to kill Brendon,
leaving another rotten sandwich in my room.
But it smells like eggs. He hates
eggs…

The sulfur-like smell grew stronger. Tugging her blanket over her nose she felt
something bump her bed. She froze.

Straining to hear anything in the profound silence,
she was completely paralyzed by fear, seeing only smeary black shadows. Don’t
panic, don’t panic.

Her bed rocked as something pushed on her mattress
from below. She screamed hysterically
but to her horror, no one came bursting through her door.

Is Brendon
playing some kind of sick practical joke?

Gritting her teeth, she threw the covers aside,
forcing her legs off the side of the bed determined to jump down.

An icy breath hissed on her bare skin from
below.

Shrieking, she pulled her legs in, burying herself
in the blankets. Someone was in her room, under her bed, and just like her
dream, that person was going to hurt her.
She bit her quilt as tears splattered down on her arms.

It was silent.

This
doesn’t make any sense. Am I still
dreaming? This is just a nightmare. I’m just imagining things, she
consoled herself. It’s
cold in my room, themattress’s
springs are probably popping… she stopped short.

Something dragged across her carpet at the same time
her bed shook. A low, unmistakable growl came from underneath her; a wet,
gurgling sound. She screeched so hard
her throat felt raw.

A black silhouette rose beside her bed.

Review:

I love books that draw me in from the first page and have me
staying up late into the night to finish. Even when I am sick and need my sleep
I just couldn’t put down this book it was just that amazing!

Eden
was just a normal fifteen year old girl. That is until she moves back and
reconnects with her old best friend Micah. In a moment of awkwardness she
throws her arms around him shocking both her and Micah. But why did Eden hug him? Micah’s
life changes the moment Eden
hugs him. He sees demons and angels along with having visions. Micah soon
figures out that Eden
is responsible for this even though she doesn’t know by hugging people she
awakens their spiritual powers. Now they need to find all the other people Eden has awakened so Micah
can fulfill his destiny as the seer to save the world from impending fire.

I am so happy I got to review this book. I absolutely loved
the uniqueness of the story and characters in the world Amanda has created. It
was entertaining, fun, interesting, and had such an original story. I loved
reading about all the characters even the minor ones. But I especially enjoyed
Micah, Eden, and Gabriel. Reading
about the ancient city Enoch was my absolute favorite part of this book. I
could just keep going on and on about this book but I won’t except to say I
highly recommend this book to everyone because it’s just that amazing! Plus I
can’t wait for the next book to see what is going to happen next. 5/5 Bloody
Fangs

Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I would also like to say Thank You to Amanda for letting me review your book and say Thank You to Jaidis for letting me participate in this tour. Don't forget to enter the giveaway below.

3 comments:

Look great, "Why’s it reek in here? I’m going to kill Brendon, leaving another rotten sandwich in my room. But it smells like eggs. He hates eggs… The sulfur-like smell grew stronger. Tugging her blanket over her nose she felt something bump her bed. She froze".Scary.Thanks...